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That the american people care about, biden would have to pursue policies like opening up energy exploration and domestic production. that's something his base won't allow him to pursue so he is stuck. he tried to blame this on putin. they didn't work. denied that inflation existed. that hasn't worked. said it's transitory. that didn't work. that's the only strategy they have. they won't change policy. >> laura: mark, i want something else that leon penetta said more on point than the irish comment. >> from a personal point of view i understand why he said it. at the same time, when you are pre...

Almost 50 years. has the word disciplined ever know used to describe him? >> well, no. he got into a lot of trouble with speeches and issues around that over the history. i worked with leon penetta. president clinton was disciplined when it came to the words of foreign policy. he knew every single one has meaning that reverberates around the world. >> laura: thank you. if biden's team cared about stopping autocrats they would reach out to americans who voted to trump and standing up for china. instead reaching out to china and bashing republicans. politico said the white house postponeded a su...

Think is unrealistic. >> bret: the former secretary of defense leon penetta you heard him say at some point the war may be over and we may be out of afghanistan, but the war against the terrorists threat won't be over and we will likely have to play whack a mole with different element of radical islam. one big thing is the talk about the bagram air base and the decision to shut it down, whether it was the military advisors who told the president and he agreed with them. this is general milley and what president biden said about that. >> our ask given to us at that time: protect the embassy for...

President, and said that i just been informed that a large airliner had gone down off of long island, and was not sure what was the cause of it, but did say that there had been an explosion, and, you know, when the plane went down. so, you know, there was obviously, some suspicion that igt mi it might be a terrorist act. there was a pause. you can tell he was shocked by the news because he knew that an awful lot of lives had been lost. >> chief of staff leon penetta briefed us. >> there were some who thought there might have been some witnesses to the plane going down. there was even some talk...

Wouldn't release them. >> you said they are ageing old guys. >> they are now. even leon penetta, now he says listen what we've done, especially dealing with another government -- >> for a year? >> they are not holding them for a year. >> they are free to travel and free to go to afghanistan in a year. we'll have 10,000 troops in afghanistan. >> the united states government is not doing any tracking -- >> let me ask you an important question. if these five guys go back into the field of battle and kill americans, are you still going to say this was a good deal? they are the worst of the worst, ...